Date: 3600 BCE
Period: Neolithic
Phase: Ġgantija
Location: Xagħra, Gozo
Access: Public museum managed by Heritage Malta
Site details
Ġgantija's South Temple is the earliest and consists of five apses. The temple to the north was built later and has four apses plus a niche.
Features
Betyl
Megalith engraved with the low relief of a snake
Surviving wall of 6m height
Finds
Bowl containing a bull's horn, pottery sherds and seashells, excavated from under a threshold slab to the South Temple.
Orientation
South Temple - south east
North Temple - south east
Interesting facts
The FRAGSUS Project found that Ġgantija was built close to a fault line and a natural spring.
The same archaeological dig also found remnants of what may have been a trilithon entrance leading from the sloping fields below, up to the artificial terrace Ġgantija sits on.